Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4
Hi, I am currently replacing my defunct motherboard, I am unable to test the hardware before purchase and I am seeking advice on which motherboard to get. Upon review I have selected a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4, does FreeBSD work with this board. It does have a nForce 650i (and I am not sure FreeBSD works with it?) If anyone has an alternative suggestion please let me know. The motherboard will have to support (my budget is about ZAR2000 ~ USD275): o) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 o) 4x 800Mhz DDR2 Ram o) 2x SATA HDD o) 2x IDE CDROM Drive o) 2x nVidia 7600 GT Thank you all for your help David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4
Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:30PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, I am currently replacing my defunct motherboard, I am unable to test the hardware before purchase and I am seeking advice on which motherboard to get. Upon review I have selected a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4, does FreeBSD work with this board. It does have a nForce 650i (and I am not sure FreeBSD works with it?) I just built a workstation with a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (P35/ICH9) board and am running a core 2 duo on it with AMD 7.0RC1. Everything works including ACPI which is very important if you want to run more than 1 core. If anyone has an alternative suggestion please let me know. The motherboard will have to support (my budget is about ZAR2000 ~ USD275): o) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Mine supports that with up to 1333MHz FSB. o) 4x 800Mhz DDR2 Ram Yep. I've got 4GB, don't know whether it will go to 8, the handbook is no help. o) 2x SATA HDD Yep. 4 Channels. o) 2x IDE CDROM Drive Yes. Only 1 IDE channel but supports 2 devices o) 2x nVidia 7600 GT I guess that's SLI which I don't know a lot about or whether FreeBSD (X) can make any use of it. Only 1 PCI-E x 16 on my board so I guess not for me. Thank you all for your help I don't know anything about your nForce650i chipset but as a rule of thumb, if the technology is more than 6 months old, it's likely to work unless there's non-disclosure by the manufacturer (I think Nvidia are quite good in that respect). May be somebody else can comment on whether it will work. Or if you can drop one of the video cards you can use the same motherboard as me since I've tested it (apart from sound). And it's probably cheaper! About 65 quid (130 USD). Just to add additional information for the OP. I too have a Gigabyte P35-DS3R (slight difference in model, but nearly the same) rev. 2.1 board, and it works like a champ. My specs (whether relavant or not to you): o) Core 2 Q6600 Quad Core OC'd to 1333 FSB. o) 4x 1066Mhz DDR2 Ram o) IDE channel(s) not in use. o) 4 SATA drives in raid 0+1 in use, 1 SATA CDROM drive in use o) Floppy Controller / Drive in use. o) nVidia 8800 GTX obviously in use. Like Frank mentioned, my video card doesn't run in Sli mode, however I've had nothing but luck thus far. I hope this little bit helps. Maybe next time if otherwise. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:30PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, I am currently replacing my defunct motherboard, I am unable to test the hardware before purchase and I am seeking advice on which motherboard to get. Upon review I have selected a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4, does FreeBSD work with this board. It does have a nForce 650i (and I am not sure FreeBSD works with it?) I just built a workstation with a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (P35/ICH9) board and am running a core 2 duo on it with AMD 7.0RC1. Everything works including ACPI which is very important if you want to run more than 1 core. If anyone has an alternative suggestion please let me know. The motherboard will have to support (my budget is about ZAR2000 ~ USD275): o) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Mine supports that with up to 1333MHz FSB. o) 4x 800Mhz DDR2 Ram Yep. I've got 4GB, don't know whether it will go to 8, the handbook is no help. o) 2x SATA HDD Yep. 4 Channels. o) 2x IDE CDROM Drive Yes. Only 1 IDE channel but supports 2 devices o) 2x nVidia 7600 GT I guess that's SLI which I don't know a lot about or whether FreeBSD (X) can make any use of it. Only 1 PCI-E x 16 on my board so I guess not for me. Thank you all for your help I don't know anything about your nForce650i chipset but as a rule of thumb, if the technology is more than 6 months old, it's likely to work unless there's non-disclosure by the manufacturer (I think Nvidia are quite good in that respect). May be somebody else can comment on whether it will work. Or if you can drop one of the video cards you can use the same motherboard as me since I've tested it (apart from sound). And it's probably cheaper! About 65 quid (130 USD). -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
